As Ukrainians were vacationing this July, a legal farce of Gogolian proportions was being staged in a regional court in Baryshivka, seventy kilometers on the outskirts of Kyiv.
Many aviation experts suspect that the course of action against SkyUp, a low-fare airline and tour operator, was instigated by agents of Ukraine International Airlines, partly owned by the oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, to harm the operations of a direct and quite effective competitor.
